ISBN: 1455892106

Audio CD, [EAN: 9781455892105], Audiobook, Brilliance Corp, Brilliance Corp, Book, [PU: Brilliance Corp], Brilliance Corp, Off Keck Road seems an off-putting title for a book--just try s… More...

Audio CD, [EAN: 9781455892105], Audiobook, Brilliance Corp, Brilliance Corp, Book, [PU: Brilliance Corp], Brilliance Corp, Off Keck Road seems an off-putting title for a book--just try saying it out loud. But that might be the point. Mona Simpson, celebrated author of Anywhere but Here, The Lost Father, and A Regular Guy, has written a novel about life's left-behinds. Her characters are people no one really wants, and Keck Road, in a dingy Wisconsin suburb, is a place where no one wants to live. Simpson's story follows tenderhearted Bea Maxwell, daughter of one of Green Bay's leading families, as she befriends first one, then another of the road's residents. Bea herself hails from a fancier part of town, where as a teenager in the 1950s she is busy and happy and not quite like everyone else: "It was as if adolescence--that new word that everyone all of a sudden knew--was a contagion Bea somehow had not caught. She agreed with her reasonable parents that dieting yourself half to death was dangerous. She found high heels ridiculous. She ate casseroles and desserts with the abandon of a ten-year-old boy." Bea never does pair up with anyone, boy or man, and her virginity, as imagined by Simpson, is a lifelong, defining condition: it "seemed an erectness in her posture, something symmetrical, silver." Bea compensates for her lack of love by weaving a tight web of equally not-quite-the-thing friends: Bill, the divorced boss at the real estate agency where she works; June, a single mom; Matthew, a priest; and finally, Shelley, uneducated, clever, a polio survivor. A dual portrait emerges: Simpson shows us a gossipy, exclusionary Midwestern town. And she shows us, in full, Bea, a character who teeters between the conventional (golfer, broker of the year, board member at the church) and the off-beat. The author never forces Bea into the unlikely role of heroine, nor does she judge her curious circle of friends. In the end, Simpson's warts-and-all rendering has a real humanity to it. --Claire Dederer, 67216011, Populäre Belletristik, 67221011, Action & Abenteuer, 67916011, Anthologien, 67220011, Buch zum Film, 67923011, Familiensagen, 67924011, Historisch, 67223011, Horror, 67926011, Krieg, 273042011, Medizin, 273043011, Metaphysisch, 67925011, Männerabenteuer, 67219011, Märchen, 67217011, Politisch, 55229011, Religion & Esoterik, 65642011, Schwul & Lesbisch, 1322750031, Seeabenteuer, 67218011, Sport, 67927011, Western, 66034011, Belletristik, 54071011, Genres, 52044011, Fremdsprachige Bücher, 67215011, Literarisch, 66034011, Belletristik, 54071011, Genres, 52044011, Fremdsprachige Bücher<

ISBN: 9781455892105

From Anywhere But Here (a first novel that prompted Anne Tyler to proclaim, She is already a master) to her most recent, A Regular Guy (What a pleasure, observed Newsweek, to see a succes… More...

From Anywhere But Here (a first novel that prompted Anne Tyler to proclaim, She is already a master) to her most recent, A Regular Guy (What a pleasure, observed Newsweek, to see a successful novelist take a huge chance and fly high with it), Mona Simpson has proven herself one of her generation's defining voices. With three books she has created a memorable cast of searchers who leave home in order to reinvent themselves, to find the missing parent or dream. But in this superb new novella, Simpson reveals the precise costs and rewards of staying--out of affinity and obligation, out of chance, circumstance, and choice. In Green Bay, Wisconsin--here vividly realized and imagined--Bea Maxwell comes of age in the fifties, and Off Keck Road follows her extended circle along the arc of their lives, through their frustrations and occasional successes, well toward old age. A story of family and friends, of change and many generations, it gathers itself around this remarkable woman, who discovers much about the world from her experience in the one place she has always belonged. Mesmerizing, compact, and intense, Off Keck Road reflects fully half a century of American life--and displays a writer at the maturity of her accomplishment. About the Author:Mona Simpson is the recipient of a Whiting Writer's Award, a Guggenheim grant, and the Hodder Fellowship at Princeton University. Since 1988 she has taught at Bard College, where she now holds the Sadie Samuelson Levy Chair of Languages and Literature. She recently received a grant from the Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Foundation. She lives in Santa Monica, California. Audio>Audio>Fiction>Fiction>Literary Fict, Brilliance Audio Core >15<

ISBN: 9781455892105

CD-Audio, [PU: BRILLIANCE AUDIO], From Anywhere But Here (a first novel that prompted Anne Tyler to proclaim, "She is already a master") to A Regular Guy ("What a pleasure," observed News… More...

CD-Audio, [PU: BRILLIANCE AUDIO], From Anywhere But Here (a first novel that prompted Anne Tyler to proclaim, "She is already a master") to A Regular Guy ("What a pleasure," observed Newsweek, "to see a successful novelist take a huge chance and fly high with it"), Mona Simpson has proven herself one of her generation's defining voices. In each book she has created a memorable cast of searchers who leave home in order to reinvent themselves, to find the missing parent or dream. But in this superb novella - a Pen/Faulkner finalist - Simpson reveals the precise costs and rewards of staying--out of affinity and obligation, out of chance, circumstance, and choice. In Green Bay, Wisconsin -- here vividly realized and imagined -- Bea Maxwell comes of age in the fifties, and Off Keck Road follows her extended circle along the arc of their lives, through their frustrations and occasional successes, well toward old age. A story of family and friends, of change and many generations, it gathers itself around this remarkable woman, who discovers much about the world from her experience in the one place she has always belonged. Mesmerizing, compact, and intense, Off Keck Road reflects fully half a century of American life -- and displays a writer at the maturity of her accomplishment., Contemporary Fiction<

ISBN: 9781455892105

CD-Audio, [PU: BRILLIANCE AUDIO], From Anywhere But Here (a first novel that prompted Anne Tyler to proclaim, "She is already a master") to A Regular Guy ("What a pleasure," observed News… More...

CD-Audio, [PU: BRILLIANCE AUDIO], From Anywhere But Here (a first novel that prompted Anne Tyler to proclaim, "She is already a master") to A Regular Guy ("What a pleasure," observed Newsweek, "to see a successful novelist take a huge chance and fly high with it"), Mona Simpson has proven herself one of her generation's defining voices. In each book she has created a memorable cast of searchers who leave home in order to reinvent themselves, to find the missing parent or dream. But in this superb novella - a Pen/Faulkner finalist - Simpson reveals the precise costs and rewards of staying--out of affinity and obligation, out of chance, circumstance, and choice. In Green Bay, Wisconsin -- here vividly realized and imagined -- Bea Maxwell comes of age in the fifties, and Off Keck Road follows her extended circle along the arc of their lives, through their frustrations and occasional successes, well toward old age. A story of family and friends, of change and many generations, it gathers itself around this remarkable woman, who discovers much about the world from her experience in the one place she has always belonged. Mesmerizing, compact, and intense, Off Keck Road reflects fully half a century of American life -- and displays a writer at the maturity of her accomplishment., Contemporary Fiction<

ISBN: 9781455892105

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